[GeoIT.org] Call for papers: PLATIAL'18

[Rene Westerholt]

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to the first PLATIAL'18 Workshop, which 
will take place on 20—21 September 2018 in Heidelberg, Germany! The 
event aims to put forward the notion of quantitative place-based 
analysis, which will be motivated by a keynote delivered by Dr Alexis 
Comber (University of Leeds, UK). We accept short paper submissions, 
which will be published online. Further, we are currently planning a 
follow-up special issue in Transactions in GIS to offer the opportunity 
to extend the papers to long contributions.
We are looking forward to your submissions, and to discuss with you in 
September!

Best wishes,
René Westerholt, Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, Alexander Zipf

PS: Please spread the word to your personal networks and forward this 
call to anyone for whom it might be interesting and relevant.

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**VGIscience PLATIAL'18 Workshop**

Venue: Mathematikon, Heidelberg University, Germany
Date: 21 September 2018

Keynote talk: Quantitative Platial Analysis, Prof. Alexis Comber, 
University of Leeds

Website: http://platial18.platialscience.net

On the way to platial analysis: Can geosocial media provide the 
necessary impetus?

The recent availability of user-generated geographic datasets allows 
gaining novel insights into otherwise hardly observable societal 
phenomena. Geosocial media forms one important source of user-generated 
information, which partly describes the everyday lives of people. The 
analysis of these kinds of data, however, requires new approaches. 
Geosocial media data—like those extracted from Twitter, Flickr, 
Instagram, and others—differ from established sources in that they are 
largely inherently platial in nature. People provide their own 
subjective opinions or perceptions, and taken together these represent 
the digital social imagination of places. Crisp and objective geographic 
data primitives like points, lines or polygons are not necessarily the 
preferable units for analysing these kinds of information. Platial 
analysis approaches are thus needed to fully exploit the potential of 
geosocial media and related data. Yet, while human geographers and 
social scientists have been theorizing on the concept of place since a 
long time, and despite of invocations by leading GIScience researchers, 
we are still lacking a universal theory on the formalization of places 
and how to make them available to quantitative and other GIS-related 
analysis strategies. Partly, this lack has been due to the insufficient 
availability of platial data, but the appearance of geosocial media 
might change this condition. It is therefore time to rethink our 
geographical analysis strategies with a focus on “place” instead of 
“space”. We therefore encourage you to participate in our one-day 
workshop by discussing the following topics:

* How could existing GIScience theories on space be integrated with the 
human-geographic and philosophical notion of place?

* How can we—analogous to points, lines and polygons—derive platial 
units as counterparts to the established GIS primitives?

* How is it possible to establish and quantify relationships between 
adjacent places?

* What might be a suitable strategy for aggregating subjective platial 
information?

* What are the roles of uncertainty, fuzziness, and subjectivity in a 
place-based theory of geographical information?

* In which ways can places be visualized, and how can we do that at 
multiple scales?

* How can platial analysis be integrated with applied research agendas 
from neighbouring disciplines like sociology/regional science, urban 
planning, or human geography?

* How to align Tobler’s first law of geography with a platial notion of 
geospatial analysis?

* Further topics are welcome if they fit the overall theme of this workshop.

Apart from discussing the above topics, it is our particular goal to 
establish an interdisciplinary dialogue involving geographers, computer 
scientists, social scientists, and other related scholars.

WORKSHOP CONVENORS
René Westerholt, GIScience, Heidelberg University 
(westerholt at uni-heidelberg.de)
Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, GIScience, Heidelberg University 
(mocnik at uni-heidelberg.de)
Alexander Zipf, GIScience, Heidelberg University (zipf at uni-heidelberg.de)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Gennady Andrienko (City University London, United Kingdom)
Thomas Blaschke (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Dirk Burghardt (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
Alexis Comber (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Andrew U. Frank (TU Wien, Austria)
Hans Gebhardt (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Michael F. Goodchild (University of California, Santa Barbara, United 
States)
Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
Alan MacEachren (The Pennsylvania State University, United States)
Grant McKenzie (McGill University, Canada)
Franz-Benjamin Mocnik (Heidelberg University, Germany)
João Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
Ross Purves (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Simon Scheider (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
René Westerholt (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Stephan Winter (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Diedrich Wolter (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Alexander Zipf (Heidelberg University, Germany)

IMPORTANT DATES
1 June 2018:                  Call for short papers opens.
1 June 2018:                  Registration opens.
8 July 2018:                  Submission deadline for short papers.
19 August 2018:               Camera-ready papers are due.
16 September 2018:            Papers are available online.
21 September 2018:            VGIscience PLATIAL'18 workshop.

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
We are seeking high-quality contributions on the topics proposed. 
Therefore, we want your work to be visible and sustainably citable also 
after the workshop. All short paper contributions will be published 
online as CEUR Workshop Proceedings, an outlet for high-quality computer 
science and information systems proceedings. Your papers shall be 
prepared in adherence to the guidelines published on the workshop 
website (http://platial18.platialscience.net). You find the template on 
Overleaf: https://goo.gl/A7J7FF. The manuscripts should not exceed 3,000 
words, including figures and references (7 pages if you include many 
figures). The final submission of both PDF and LaTeX source files is 
done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=platial18.

The submissions will be handled as follows:

* Please submit your prepared paper (PDF and LaTeX source) through 
EasyChair. Visit platial18.platialscience.net to access the offered 
LaTeX template.

* All submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the 
programme committee in a double-blind review process. Therefore, please 
prepare your documents in an anonymized form.

* The revised and accepted papers will be made available online before 
the workshop date.

We further invite you to extend your short papers to long papers after 
the workshop, and to submit them to a planned **special issue** in 
**Transactions in GIS** (accepted, currently in the planning). Further 
information on this latter opportunity will be made available soon.

HOW TO REGISTER
The admission fee (including lunch, coffee breaks and dinner) depends on 
your status:

Regular participants:        130 EUR
PhD students:                 80 EUR
Bachelor/Master students:     40 EUR

You will receive a receipt for your reimbursement. Please note that the 
number of attendees is limited, and your participation depends on the 
availability of places. You can register for the workshop on Eventbrite: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/platial18-tickets-46023460409. Please 
note: For administrative reasons, the payment will be done after you 
have registered at Eventbrite (the tickets offered on Eventbrite are 
free, the payment is done separately).

Do not hesitate to post your questions to platial18 at platialscience.net.

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René Westerholt FRGS
[Research Fellow]

Heidelberg University
GIScience Research Group | Institute of Geography
Room 12b
Im Neuenheimer Feld 348
D-69120 Heidelberg

[Tel] +49-6221-54-5504
[Fax] +49-6221-54-4529
[I-Net] http://giscience.uni-hd.de

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